Self-lighting cigar.



Patented Aug. 54; I900,

' HEIMANN.

SELF LIGHTING (HEAR.

(Application filed Mar. 6, 1900.)

(No Model.)

NITED- T T PATENT OFFICE.

BEN/NO HEIMANN, or SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA, ASSIGNOR or ONE- HALF T0 ISAAC DANNENBAUM, or SAME PLACE.

ELF-LIGHT NQCICAR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Iatent No. 655,864, dated August 14, 1900. Y Application filed March 6, 1900. Serial No. 7,461. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, BENNO HEIMANN, a citi- -z'en of Germany, residing in the city and county of San Francisco, State of California, have invented an Improvement in Self-Lighting Cigars; and I hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same. I

My invention relates .to a cigar carrying upon itself a means for its ignition without the use of matches.

It consists of a speciallyprepared compound mixed into a. paste and incorporated with the ends of the rolled leaves of the cigar, so as to form an essential part of the structure.

Figure 1 illustrates a cigar, partially broken away, embodying my invention. Fig. 2 illustrates a portion of a tobacco-leaf with the compound applied to it.

Various devices have been employed for lighting cigars-such as a match or pin inserted and protruding from the end of a cigartip with a composition and provided with a fulminate, or charcoal, or other material made adherent on the outer end by some adhesive material. The difiiculty with these devices is that in the case of inserted foreign substances the lighting of the cigar injures its'delicate flavor by reason of the wood ,or other foreign substance which is inserted. j

In the application of pastes adherent to the end of the cigar the scratching or rubbing of v the cigar is very apt to cause the material to become detached and fly oif without performing the required service. In my invention I form a paste of materials, hereinafter described, of sufficient thinness and viscosity so that it may be made to extend a short distance into the interstices between the rolled ends of the leaves formingthe cigar, and a sufiicient portion of the materialappears upon the ends of the leaves, so that when it is rubbed upon a proper surface this material will be ignited. By reason of its extending a short. distance into the end of the cigar the ignition the leaves with it before the said leaves are rolled up, the object being to thoroughly satmate the ends of the leaves with the stance. I

In carrying out my invention I employ a sub compound consisting of chlorate of potash,

lampblack, pentasulphide of antimony, and charcoal, the'whole mixed with a proportion of gelatine sufficient to form itintoa comparatively-thin paste.

6o This paste is applied to r the cigar-leaves, as previously described, and

when dry is in condition for use, showing the same color as the cigar and no great protuberance. For the igniting-surface I take .bisulphide of mercury, charcoal, and pentasulphide of antimony, which is also mixed with gelatine and is applied to any suitable and convenient surface. It may be placed upon a cigar-case, or it may be spread upon a card or other surface convenient for the purpose, and when the cigar, prepared as previously described, is to be ignited it is only necessary to'rub the end of the cigar upon this prepared'surface and it will be thoroughly ignited.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters 

